{"id":3714,"date":"2016-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/red-bank-elementary-what-students-have-to-say-about-personalized-learning\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:57:10","slug":"red-bank-elementary-what-students-have-to-say-about-personalized-learning","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/red-bank-elementary-what-students-have-to-say-about-personalized-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bank Elementary: What Students Have to Say about Personalized Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12571 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-11-16-08.40.10-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-11-16 08.40.10\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>This series is part of my Competency Education Takes Root in South Carolina tour. This is the fourth in the series on Red Bank Elementary.\u00a0B<em>egin with the first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/red-bank-elementary-five-big-takeaways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">five big takeaways<\/a>\u00a0and follow along with: #2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/red-bank-elementary-school-teaching-students-not-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teaching students instead of standards<\/a>, #3\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/red-bank-elementary-school-starting-with-the-pedagogy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teacher perspectives<\/a>, #4\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/red-bank-elementary-what-students-have-to-say-about-personalized-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">student perspectives<\/a>, and #5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/red-bank-elementary-the-parent-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">parent perspectives<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>During my visit to Red Bank Elementary School, Reilly, Audrey, Gustavo, Chandler, Zaria, Alysia, Kayla, and Riley all piled into Principal Marie Watson\u2019s office ready to talk about their experience in a personalized, competency-based school. Here are a few of the highlights:<\/p>\n<p><em>How does Red Bank compare to other schools you\u2019ve gone to? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>One student described going to a different school for three months. \u201cI did not like it because they were sticking together and learning the same thing. It was upsetting me because a lot of kids were falling behind. They don\u2019t know it and no one helps them. The teacher just keeps moving. Or everyone had to stop for the teacher to help them. If they had extra tutoring like we have at Red Bank, they could keep working on the topic until they got it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>What is personalized learning? <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It makes school fun. It\u2019s fun to get smarter.<\/li>\n<li>Learning is something we want to do.<\/li>\n<li>You can learn things when you want to learn it. It\u2019s at your own pace.<\/li>\n<li>If you learn something and get a 3, then you can work on something else that is interesting to you.<\/li>\n<li>We are working differently \u2013 we learn different things at different times.<\/li>\n<li>The iPad and Compass Odyssey help with personalized learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>How does the school make sure you are learning? <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We work in groups. Sometimes you work in a different group. Then the next day you might be moved over to another group. It\u2019s based on what you are learning.<\/li>\n<li>We explain things to our friends in Spanish if they didn\u2019t understand the teacher (in the Spanish immersion classes).<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes we are the smarter than the teacher. Sometimes I just know the answers.<\/li>\n<li>You can go to the learning lab to get tutoring if you have a problem.<\/li>\n<li>We help each other. If you already learned something, then you help others if they ask.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes students help others so they can be at the same level. It\u2019s fun when you are working on the same thing with your friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>How does it feel if you are on one standard and your friends are on a standard ahead of you?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is fine. It doesn\u2019t feel weird because others are on your standard. Others can see who needs help or who to ask.<\/li>\n<li>If kids get behind and get upset then others want to help them.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes I get behind. It can be bad. If I don\u2019t do my work I can get very far behind. My teacher or my mom helps me to organize my work. Then I catch up. (I asked what the teacher does to help him catch up.) We go over what I need to do to learn or to show my learning. Sometimes she gives me mini-lessons if I don\u2019t understand something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>What advice would you give a new student who has never been in a personalized school before?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People will help him along the way.<\/li>\n<li>There are different levels \u2013 people will help if they are not on pace.<\/li>\n<li>You will start to work on your own pace. And if you are behind someone will help you. The iPad will help you learn more things.<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t need to rush to where everyone else is. It is fine to be behind if you need more time.<\/li>\n<li>If you are behind, you don\u2019t have to wait. You just keep working on things. I\u2019d tell him about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstinmath.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First in Math<\/a> because it gets you fluent and ready for testing.<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t have to worry that you\u2018ll fall behind. You work at your own pace. You don\u2019t have to do sloppy work and go as fast as you can. You just do your best work. There are different skill levels and if you are good at one thing, you can go on to harder levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/insights-into-implementation\/reflections-on-student-centered-learning-part-1-student-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\">Reflections on Student-Centered Learning Part 1 \u2013 Student Perspective<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/charleston-south-carolina-balancing-competency-education-with-student-centered-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\">Charleston South Carolina: Balancing Competency Education with Student-Centered Culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/merit-prep-where-students-feel-safe-to-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\">Merit Prep: Where Students Feel Safe to Learn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mapsvg_location":""},"legacy_category":[],"issue":[368,371],"location":[95],"class_list":["post-3714","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field","location-south-carolina"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Bank Elementary: What Students Have to Say about Personalized Learning - Aurora Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/red-bank-elementary-what-students-have-to-say-about-personalized-learning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Red Bank Elementary: What Students Have to Say about Personalized Learning - Aurora Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This series is part of my Competency Education Takes Root in South Carolina tour. 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